Workshops
We offer a wide range of academic skills workshops delivered online and in-person on campus.
Academic Skills Workshops
Elevate your skills and knowledge with us!
This is a great place to start if you want to:
- Improve your study, research and writing skills
- Develop your IT and digital skills
- Focus on your maths and numeracy.
Workshops are added regularly, so keep checking back to see what's new!
Workshop topics
Library Welcome
Study, Research and Writing
- Academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism
- Academic writing for assessments, including:
- Assessment structure
- Critical and analytical writing
- Paraphrasing
- Constructing and deconstructing arguments
- Developing confidence in speaking
- Doing a literature review
- EndNote
- Finding information, including:
- Databases
- Journal articles
- Library Search (library catalogue)
- Reading lists
- Referencing
- Writing at a UK University
- Writing Café
IT and Digital
- Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Creating academic posters
- Creating narrated presentations
- Formatting dissertations/theses
- Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams
Maths and Numeracy
- Basic Algebra
- Graduate Numerical Reasoning Tests
- Medicine Management (Drug Calculations)
- Trigonometry Refresher
Coming up...
- Starts: 22 Sep 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 22 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, ConcourseDrop by our pop-up on the Allerton Concourse. We'll be here to answer your questions, share study tips, and help you make the most of your resources. No booking required.
- Starts: 22 Sep 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 22 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Peel, Clifford Whitworth Learning Suite 1Remaining places: 5Come along to this on campus workshop to learn how to sign in to your Microsoft 365 account and access the Outlook, OneDrive and Word apps.
- Starts: 23 Sep 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 23 Sep 2026, 2:30 pmRemaining places: 4710-Week Algebra Refresher Course. Starting Wednesday 23rd Sept 2026, 13:00-14:30. Follow the link for full details.
- Starts: 23 Sep 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 23 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmThis workshop is for anybody who wants to learn about academic integrity: what it is; why it is important; how you can demonstrate it in your studies.
- Starts: 23 Sep 2026, 3:00 pmFinishes: 23 Sep 2026, 4:00 pmThis workshop covers critical and analytical skills useful for academic work.
- Starts: 24 Sep 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 24 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, Inside Main EntranceDrop by our pop-up in the Clifford Whitworth Library. We'll be here to answer your questions, share study tips, and help you make the most of your resources. No booking required.
- Starts: 25 Sep 2026, 10:00 amFinishes: 25 Sep 2026, 11:30 amRemaining places: 4910-Week Algebra Refresher Course. Starting Friday 25th Sept 2026, 10:00-11:30. Follow the link for full details.
- Starts: 28 Sep 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 28 Sep 2026, 2:30 pmRemaining places: 38This workshop covers the use of mathematical formula, the processes of substitution and evaluation, and the rearranging of formula to isolate a specific variable.
- Starts: 29 Sep 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 29 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, ConcourseDrop by our pop-up on the Allerton Concourse. We'll be here to answer your questions, share study tips, and help you make the most of your resources. No booking required.
- Starts: 29 Sep 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 29 Sep 2026, 4:00 pmRemaining places: 40This workshop covers fundamental algebra techniques for working with linear, quadratic and simultaneous equations.